Actual Budget MCP server
Open-source personal finance app with envelope budgeting (self-hosted)
Actual Budget is not a separate install. One Activepieces MCP server exposes it alongside 770+ other apps, behind a single URL.
- Tools
- 11
- Works with
- Any MCP client
- Auth
- Custom auth
- License
- MIT, open source
- Updated
- November 2026
About the Actual Budget MCP server
Connect Actual Budget once in Activepieces and every action it ships becomes a tool your assistant can call, behind the same server URL as the rest of your apps. Your agent reaches Actual Budget and 770+ other apps over a single connection, on our cloud or a self-hosted install.
Tools
Actual Budget tools your AI can run
Once connected, your assistant can call any of these Actual Budget actions by asking in plain language.
Get Budget
Gets the budget for one month: totals plus budgeted, spent and balance per category (amounts in cents).
2 fields
Import Transaction
Adds one transaction to an account. Actual runs your rules on it and skips it when the Imported ID was already imported.
10 fields
Import Transactions
Imports many transactions into one account. Amounts are integer cents (-1250 = -12.50). Rows whose imported_id was already imported are skipped.
2 fields
Get Categories
Gets every budget category as a flat list.
Get Accounts
Gets every account in the budget (open and closed).
Find Payees
Finds payees whose name contains the search text (all payees when empty).
1 field
Find Transactions
Finds transactions in a date range, optionally filtered by account, payee, category, amount or text.
9 fields
Update Transaction
Changes fields of an existing transaction. Empty fields are left unchanged.
8 fields
Delete Transaction
Deletes a transaction (and its splits). This cannot be undone from the flow.
1 field
Set Budget Amount
Sets how much is budgeted for a category in a month (replaces the current amount).
3 fields
Run Bank Sync
Pulls new transactions from the bank for one linked account, or for all linked accounts.
1 field
Triggers
Actual Budget events your agent can watch
These start a run the moment something happens in Actual Budget, so work gets picked up on its own.
New Transaction
Triggers when a transaction dated within the last 7 days (or later) is added to an account. Split transactions trigger once, with their splits.
1 field
Give your assistant Actual Budget
Connect Actual Budget once and every tool above is callable from Claude, Cursor or any MCP client, behind the same server URL as 770+ other apps. Free to start.
Actual Budget MCP, answered.
No. That is the point of it. One Activepieces server exposes Actual Budget alongside every other piece you connect, so your client keeps a single connection.
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